Meteorite crash in Russia.

Are they red like "Mouline Rouge!"?

Anyone else noticed how The Chronicle placed the story under "/news/bizarre/" in their website?

How "bizarre" is an atmospheric event?

 

I've seen one at night like that....well not quite as big, but it was a fireball.

 

I heard this sort of event happens once a decade. Pretty bizarre, I'd say, if you're actually witnessing it in person.

 

I was trying to say... shouldn't it go under "Science News" or maybe "WORLD News" or something else? It just seems funny they chose "/news/bizarre" as its location, too...

 

Yeah, but how bizarre is it?

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Ijst went to the Chron, and the article is under News > Science. It's also the top story in World News. I don't find it at all in the Odd News. Maybe they recategorized it.

 

^ It's probably a different story than this (contains the YouTube compilation video, not the other one you mention, which has a photo gallery) :

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I linked this story (bizarre?) within my first post in this thread...

 

Driving in Russia takes another unusual twist.

 

That's definitely a shock wave from the air blast.

 

so, what's up..where did it land? or did this thing just pass by.... and the loud bang was it from it striking land??

 

Plz bro, you lucky a Russian had a camera and shared it. Every new discovery nowadays might get a potato quality pic. Ain't nobody going to the mountains to find that rock.

 

The bang is the shock wave of the meteorite exploding in the atmosphere -- here is an example from a documentary on the first British hydrogen bomb.

http://youtu.be/UhnjbkDotYI?t=3m9s

Linked to the relevant part.

 

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It made a hole.

 

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Anyone else read this in Sweet Brown's voice? (Ain't nobody got time for that! lady)

That's what SHE said.

 

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Suspected meteor explosion reported in central Cuba

n object fell from the sky over central Cuba on Thursday night and turned into a fireball “bigger than the sun” before it exploded, a Cuban TV channel reported Friday, citing eyewitnesses.

Some residents in the central province of Cienfuegos were quoted as saying that at around 8 p.m. local time Thursday (0100 GMT Friday) they saw a bright spot in the sky comparable to a bus in size.

The object then turned into a fireball “bigger than the sun,” said the witnesses, adding that several minutes later they heard a loud explosion.

One resident told the TV station that his house shook slightly in the blast.

Cuban experts have been dispatched to the area to look for possible remains of the meteor-like object, said the report.

It remains unknown whether the reported phenomenon in Cuba is related to Friday’s meteor strike in central Russia, which set off a shockwave that shattered windows and left some 1,000 people injured.

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